Don’t have many small ornaments; they mean work in cleaning. Above everything else make your dining room cheerful and make yourself and your family comfort, yet make it the sort of room that will best answer your family needs. If there are just two or three of you, you may think that a room used only for dining is a waste of space and you will want to make a combination room –a living – dining room or a dining room study a room to be used all though the day. If the family is large and your pocket book ample you will probably want a dining room. We will discuss combination rooms later, but first let’s think in today’s terms of all the different types of pleasant dining rooms. Below is a Provincial room which has that most cheerful of things –a group of sunny windows. In the newer houses are found many picture windows, bay windows, or groups of windows which are decorative, healthful and cheerful. For example: French Provincial furniture has not only charm, but is also in a good scale to suit rooms of moderate size, and consequently is much used and liked. The table may be placed in the center of the room, or near a group of sunny windows as here, adjacent to the door to the kitchen, when a living room group is used on the opposite side of the room. The sculptured carpet is particularly smart. It is now available in the medium price range in spruce tone beige and blends delightfully with the walnut tones of the furniture, the yellow of the silk gauze curtains, and the cocoa brown walls. The chair pads are of yellow, cotton antique satin, with the wearing qualities of a serge.
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